I was paranoid once in my early twenties so I asked a doctor to check my bum for cancer (I didn’t know much about it at the time other than that it’s a thing that people do and apparently it’s nothing to be ashamed of, but I was also a bit of a hypochondriac).
Well she probably thought I was too young for that and just being a weirdo, cause she made it HURT as badly as she could, and I’ve had a thing about avoiding doctors ever since.
Or maybe, like, if you’re a doctor giving a rectal exam then maybe your patient shouldn’t walk away feeling as if he had just been anally raped. Even if you think he’s too young to request a screening…
I was paranoid once in my early twenties so I asked a doctor to check my bum for cancer (I didn’t know much about it at the time other than that it’s a thing that people do and apparently it’s nothing to be ashamed of, but I was also a bit of a hypochondriac).
Well she probably thought I was too young for that and just being a weirdo, cause she made it HURT as badly as she could, and I’ve had a thing about avoiding doctors ever since.
one more example of “useless tests are bad”. unfortunately there are no statistics for this kind of harm. see my other comment
Or maybe, like, if you’re a doctor giving a rectal exam then maybe your patient shouldn’t walk away feeling as if he had just been anally raped. Even if you think he’s too young to request a screening…
And of he’s too young to request a screening just say so and ask if they still want to do it…